Comment 10 for bug 663352

I had the same bug, but my work around was the following:

Manually take down your listening interfaces.
My interface was eth0 (yours might be wlan0, br0, or something else. ifconfig usually lists only listening interface).
sudo ifconfig <interface name> down -- for me this would be written sudo ifconfig eth0 down.

I then could restart the networking service
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Everything worked after I took the interface down manually.